What makes night within us may leave stars.
VICTOR HUGOTo love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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